Example sentences of "[to-vb] she [verb] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You may also need to help her to transfer to the list of your own general practitioner , if she and he are both agreeable to this ; and of course she must be assured that you , or some other member of the family will be with her on the actual day of the move or , if she wishes , take the responsibility of it off her shoulders completely .
2 I was trying to persuade her to move to a retirement flat in Waverley Road . ’
3 I had to plead with you to let her come to the party , ’ Mother said .
4 Whereas Deneuve was able to delegate her ageing to a stuntwoman and dummies ( thus preserving her ‘ look ’ , as she calls it in her very precise and fluent English ) , Bowie had to act several scenes as he aged catastrophically through lack of fresh blood and then , despite one last desperate murder , perishes .
5 Maurice probably did n't want to risk her objecting to the surrender of Tristram 's letters .
6 He wished it were Perdita at the end of the rope , he 'd like to see her crashing to the ground over and over again .
7 If your elderly relative is unfortunate enough to be registered with a doctor who is impatient with the older patients on his list and not particularly interested in geriatric medicine , the best thing to do is to try to get her transferred to the list of another doctor in the area whose attitude towards his elderly patients is known to be more sympathetic and thorough .
8 Poppy visiting the feeding station , set up to get her used to a routine .
9 That is to say she conforms to the masculinist construction of femininity .
10 But last night Mrs Ralli denied 36-year-old Gilbey had actually booked the cottage and said she was baffled about why he should try to stop her speaking to the Press .
11 He had waited until the last moment on the Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. to tell her to go to the bank .
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